Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-10-04
REAL ESTATE.
COMBINATION LAND co.
SPECIAL NO. 4.

OIL LOlhh NOs rs
| 1.-The old oligarchy of Greece now abolished
Were jolly and genial and fond of the arts,
| Their tastes were refined, their manners were
| polished,
But their manner of living affects their
| hearts.
They neglected their business, they gave
| themselves airs,
| Read the poets in Greek, supped their
| wine, took their rest
| Never troubling their beautiful heads with
| affairs,
And as for their morals-the least said the
| best.
The scandal grew greater and greater; and
| then
| An appeal to the people was formally made,
The old gods were displaced by the suffrage
And popular government formed in their
stead"
But time rolls around, and Athena and Juno
And Daphne and Hebe and Flora ana
Crete,
| And a dozen or more Heathen women whom
you know,
Each finds work aS LEUCADIA, naming a
street.
The Tyre that in Hades once twangcd for
Eurydice
| Now praises LEuCADIA, Queen of our Coast,
And the Tyre tells the truth when 1t says
ne'er before did see
place where the truth seems lie and a
boast.
Where else is spot where the fig and the
pumpkin
Will grow side by side without water or
care,
And each visitor feel as if he were some kin
To a God when he breathes the electrical
air?
If a man has hundred or two hundred
handy,
He will buy a lot there, not day win he
wait,
For LEUcADIA the lovely, the darling, the
dandy,
Is the brightest and neatest young town in
the State.
For climate, for health, for beauty or bust
ness,
LEUCADIA we praise in Hexameters slow.
Let our readers with spi its elated to dizzi-
ness,
Attend at the auction and bid with bow.
There are hundreds of thousands of acres
OF land in Los Angeles, San Bernardino and
San Diego counties, suitable for orchards and
vineyards.
But there is only one seaside, and only one
LEUCADIA. There are hundreds of thousands
of acres now dry and uncultivated, which
| csn by labor be changed into garden or
chards.
But there is only one strip of land which
fronts the sea, only one fundamental chord
upon which the surges of ocean sound their
mighty diapason, only one place where Dame
Nature wears her skilt of translucent beryl
| embroidered with foamy lace. And nowhere
| is this music-roOm and picture gallery OF the
Deity so attractive as at LEUCADIA.
Capital can construct reservoirs and fumes
and railroads; it can make distant acres ac
cess1ble, and cause arid acres to undulate
with verdure.
But the wealth of jay Gould could not
| bring the iodined healing breath of ocean to
the bedside of the invalid in the hot valley,
| or add one yard to the present limited supply
of ocean beach.
We say limited-go to the map and look!
All the seaside north of Santa Barbara may
be eliminated from the list of available
ocean-side property. The japanese ocean
eurrent-the "Gulf Stream" of the Pacific,
in its southwark journey from Arctic waters
hugs the shore closely from the Straits of
Fuca to Point Conception. The result is
cold Waterloo cold for comfortable bath
ing. Monterey, for instance, is in the lati-
tude OF Savannah, Georgia, but nine people
out of ten who visit Monterey bathe in the
big tanks where the water is warmed by arti-
fetal heat, and do not bathe In the ocean.
As for Santa Cruz, there is eouplet written
by some shivering pleasure seeker, on the
walls of a bath house there, which couplet ac-
curately expresses the situation.
"Santa Cruz water is like the Scotch snuff,
One dip" and you've got enough"
At Point Concepcion-just above Santa
Barbara-the cold, ocean current continues
southward in a direct course, while the
Coast line defects eastwardly at a sharp
angle, and in few miles the water, under
the genial suns of this latitude, becomes
warm enough to make bathing in any month
of the y ar real pleasure instead of "a
painful duty reluctantly performed" as
Millard Fillmore said when he signed the
Fugitive Slave Law, and as Brigham Young
remarked when he married his eighteenth
wife.
From Santa Barbara south to Point Vicente,
there is but little coast that is available for
seaside resorts. The beach is too steep for
driving, and the surf consequently too heavy
to make bathing either pleasant or safe,
while the bluff along the beach is several
hundred feet in height, and cut up with
inaccessible to all except Alpine tourists and
crows.
From Point Vicente to San Pedro are pro-
badly twenty of thirty miles of available
beach, along which are the towns of Santa
Monica, Ballona, Long Beach, etc. All these
are upon the flattable land which runs from
the top of the bluff inland. There is no
slope, and therefor no view of the ocean, ex-
cept from the avenue along the very edge of
the bluff The beach is passable but not al
ways desirable for driving, and the under
tow is often heavy, so that surf-bathers are
not safe unless they use the lines connected
Win III utcp WutcT. Anu
they do use them, for on Sunday at Santa
Monica, you can see twenty or thirty bathers
attired in scant garments of many colors,
strung along rope, and rs they resemble an
immense animated kite-tale swaying in a
high wind.
Below San Pedro there are only mud flats
| and iagOOns, until San Juan by the sea is
| reached. This place is open to the same OBJ
| jections as Santa Monica. There is an ex-
tremely high bluff and table land from the
bluff inland, and from only one street on the
edge of the bluff can an ocean view be OBJ
| tanned. Leaving San Juan, there is no
ground available for seaside resort until
the mouth OF Temecula Canon is crossed and
| Oceanside reached. At Oceanside, the direct
| road from Los Angeles to San Diego, now in
process of construction, will connect with
| the California Southern Railroad from Col
| ton to San Diego. Oceanside lots are held at
good figures, fifteen hundred dollars for a
| lot on the Ocean avenue and five hundred
dollars for resident lots mile and more
from the beach. South of Oceanside is the
| Aqua Hedionda. 1t has several miles of fine
seaside, but the owner is able to keep it, he
will not sell at any price, and If you annoy
him with an attempt to talk about selling, he
will make the interview as brief as may be
consistent with courtesy. Then comes Carls-
bad, and it is a beautiful location, and there
will be large town there, and prices of lots
| are already away up, as they ought to be.
From Carlsbad south there are lagOons, sand
dunes and broken ground until you reach
Marcos south to Encenitas is the prettiest
| site in the world for an ocean city, and on
this site is "Leucadia"-the subject of ouI
sketch. Encinitas has a good location, but
somehow it started wrong. The ownership
of the land is divided between many men OF
| many minds. When one pulls in any par
ticular direction the other pulls the Other
way. There being no company or central
authority to carry out public improvements
the result is a lack of hotel accommodations
/ no water works, and an assortment of shrines
| to Cloacina, beer kegs tin cans and broken
bottles about the depot, or the place where
the depot ought to be. The Encinitas people
| will fiji these things after awhile, but they